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The Ancient Near East : A Very Short Introduction by Amanda H. Podany
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions
The Blues : A Very Short Introduction by Elijah Wald
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Category: Music | Series: Very Short Introductions
Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It ...Show more
The Celts: a Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. Barry Cunliffe seeks to reveal this fascinating people for the first time, exploring subjects such as trade, migration, and the evolution of Celtic traditio ...Show more
The Hellenistic Age by Peter Thonemann
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube couldserve in the me ...Show more
The Renaissance A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Provides a wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, seeing the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale. This book guides the reader through the key issues that defined the period, from art, architecture, and literature, ...Show more
The Roman Empire (A Very Short Introduction) by Christopher Kelly
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions
The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from drizzle-soaked northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above a ...Show more
The Roman Republic by David M. Gwynn
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions
The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial aristocracy, Republican armies defeated Carthage and the ...Show more
The Trojan War by Eric H. Cline
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has given rise to countless scholarly articles and books, extensive archaeological excavations, epic mo ...Show more
Wittgenstein (A Very Short Introduction) by A.C. Grayling
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains the nature and im ...Show more